Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 20 12:45:33 EDT 2003 | EL
Hello What is fastest way to incoperate centroid? I have Camtastic and Protel, but I always have format X-Y coordinates. If not our SANYO pick&place will not recognized them. Thanks, EL
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 27 02:52:33 EST 2003 | Giordano Trecca
I'm using a CIM software (http://www.aiscorp.com/products_npi_circuitcam.htm) to import gerber files and produce pick&place programs and paper/paperless documentation. It's very friendly, useful and fast, but not cheap. I don't know any other softwa
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 15 17:42:50 EST 2010 | ck_the_flip
We do not have capabilities with our current PCB layout software to generate a pick and place file and/or centroid data. Consequently, we are teaching all centroids at the machine. Are there any software tools or utilities that can take a basic ger
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 05 15:42:44 EST 2019 | emeto
Rob, you can always create a program and inspect the paste with your Checkplot. If you want to take it further though, you will need a centroid file. With centroid file you can lock pads to belong to a reference designator. When you do so you will n
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 10 10:25:54 EDT 2019 | mikekeens
The merge software looks good but still not always getting the results i want - The following website can carry out a BOM to centroid xy placement data merge - http://www.surfacemountprocess.com/centroid-file-generation-service.html
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 14 09:45:00 EDT 2018 | stephendo
Are you sure you mean pick and place files? Or does the manufacturer need centroid data to make their own pick and place files? Or they might even be able to use ascii CAD data to generate pick and place files. Look for an export function. Probably
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 02 23:16:44 EST 2009 | vinitverma
Hi, Basically the software extracts Centroid data from the Gerber automatically. We wish to export the centroid data in different pick and place machine formats so that this file can be imported in the machine directly. To be able to do so I need sa
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 07 16:11:07 EDT 2011 | davef
You're in the wrong file. You're looking at solder pad data. You need to look at centroid data. Look here: http://i.screamingcircuits.com/docs/understanding-the-centroid-file-r2-2.pdf We have no relationship, nor receive benefit from the company r
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 02 12:02:33 EST 2020 | mikekeens
Depends on the programming that needs to be done - there is free software available such as GERBV - 'http://gerbv.geda-project.org/' but not that easy to use. For comparing BOM's there is some free software called MELD - http://meldmerge.org/ that's
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 11:03:54 EDT 2006 | RLM
It's quite easy: 1. Import the gerber file into GCpowerplace. 2. Select the pads that you wish to convert into centroid's. This is usually all of the pads. 3. Select the automatic extraction button. The software recognizes certain common patterns 02
